The malicious extension, FriarFox, snoops in on both Firefox and Gmail-related data. A newly uncovered cyberattack is taking control of victims’ Gmail accounts, by using a customized, malicious ...

A security researcher uncovered a large-scale crypto scam that used more than 40 fake malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions to steal cryptocurrencies. The campaign, dubbed FoxyWallet, used extensions ...

Mozilla’s Firefox team has blocked add-ons that were abusing the proxy API in order to prevent around 455,000 users from updating their browsers.

Mozilla and Google are cracking down on malicious and abusive extensions available for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, respectively. The moves come in response to the recent detection of add-ons ...

Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code.

The FriarFox malicious extension is based on the open-source Gmail Notifier (restartless) Firefox add-on by changing its icon and metadata description to mimic a Flash update process.

Firefox blocks malicious add-ons installed by half a million users Proxy add-on prevented important updates By Daniel Sims October 27, 2021, 17:06. Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.

Mozilla last night announced that two experimental Firefox add-ons, Master Filer and the Sothink Web Video Downloader version 4, infected victim PCs with Trojans when either add-on was installed ...

Firefox extensions have been disabled for many users since Friday 3 May after Mozilla failed to ... If they don't, it leaves the door open for malicious/untrusted add-ons to be installed. ...

Malicious Chrome and Firefox extensions that block their removal in order to hijack a user's browser to drive clicks up on YouTube videos and hijack searchers are automatically infecting user devices.

Mozilla blocked malicious Firefox add-ons installed by roughly 455,000 users after discovering in early June that they were abusing the proxy API to block Firefox updates.. The add-ons (named ...